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Dr Michael Fullilove AM

Executive Director

Expertise: Australian foreign policy; US politics and foreign policy; Asia and the Pacific; Global institutions

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Alex Oliver

Director of Research

Expertise: Public opinion polling; Australian and international diplomacy, public diplomacy and consular affairs

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Ben Bland

Director, Southeast Asia Program

Expertise: Southeast Asian politics and foreign policy; South China Sea; regional economic trends; China-ASEAN relations; Indonesia; Malaysia; Vietnam; Hong Kong

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Peter Cai

Project Director, Australia-China Relations

Expertise: China's economy; China's diaspora; the Belt and Road Initiative

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Alexandre Dayant

Research Fellow, Pacific Islands Program

Expertise: Politics and economics in the Pacific; Aid and international development policy.

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Dr John Edwards

Senior Fellow

Expertise: Australian economic policy; monetary policy; international economics; banking

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Daniel Flitton

Managing Editor, The Interpreter

Expertise: Australian foreign policy and politics; Australia’s intelligence services; international relations in Asia

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Caitlin Gauci

Research Associate, Pacific Island Program

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Sam Hendricks

Deputy Editor

Expertise: United Nations, international development, humanitarian aid

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Dr Jennifer Hsu

Research Fellow, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program

Expertise: China’s state-society relations, Chinese civil society, NGOs, development, social policy, philanthropy

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Natasha Kassam

Director, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy Program

Expertise: China’s domestic politics; public opinion polling; human rights; Australian foreign policy; Taiwan; Indo-Pacific strategy

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Lydia Khalil

Research Fellow, West Asia Program

Expertise: Middle East politics and security, US national security, international terrorism, extremism and countering violent extremism, technology, disinformation

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Hervé Lemahieu

Director, Power and Diplomacy Program

Expertise: Global governance and multilateralism; Indo-Pacific power and diplomacy; Geo-economics; Australian Foreign Policy; Southeast Asian politics; Myanmar

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Alyssa Leng

Research Associate, Power and Diplomacy Program

Expertise: Macroeconomics; geo-economics; economics and politics in Southeast Asia

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Edward McCann

Research Associate

Expertise: Australian foreign policy and politics; US foreign policy and politics; Diplomatic history

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Richard McGregor

Senior Fellow

Expertise: China’s political system and the workings and structure of the communist party; China’s foreign relations, with an emphasis on ties with Japan, the two Koreas, and Southeast Asia; Australia’s relations with Asia.

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Shane McLeod

Research Fellow, Aus-PNG Network

Expertise: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Japan, Korea, News, broadcasting and digital media.

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Madeleine Nyst

Research Associate

Expertise: Online extremism and social media; counter terrorism; preventing and countering violent extremism; gender, masculinity and religious extremism; radicalisation

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Jonathan Pryke

Director, Pacific Islands Program

Expertise: Pacific economic development; Australia-Melanesia relations; Australian foreign aid and the Pacific

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Roland Rajah

Lead Economist and Director, International Economics Program

Expertise: Economic policy; macroeconomics; economic development in the Asia Pacific; international development

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Sam Roggeveen

Director, International Security Program

Expertise: China’s military forces, US defence and foreign policy, Australian foreign and defence policy, drones and other military technology, blogs and online media.

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Ben Scott

Director, Australia’s Security and the Rules-Based Order Project

Expertise: Australian national security policy; International rules and norms; US foreign policy; the Middle East

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Dr Rodger Shanahan

Research Fellow, West Asia Program

Expertise: Middle East security issues; Political Islam; Shi’a Islam

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Dr Malcolm Cook

Nonresident Fellow

Expertise: Political economy of North East and South East Asia; East Asian regionalism; Japanese foreign policy; great-power relations in East Asia

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Sean Dorney

Nonresident Fellow, Pacific Islands Program

Expertise: Papua New Guinea; The Pacific Islands region; Australia's foreign correspondents

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Dr Alan Dupont AO

Nonresident Fellow

Expertise: Political and strategic developments in East Asia; transnational security issues; intelligence; Australian national security and defence

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James Fallows

Nonresident Fellow

Expertise: US politics and presidential elections; China

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Dewi Fortuna Anwar

Nonresident Fellow

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Akiko Fukushima

Nonresident Fellow

Expertise: Japan's foreign policy; Australia-Japan relations; Japanese foreign aid

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Bonnie S Glaser

Nonresident Fellow

Expertise: International security; defence and security; Chinese defence policy

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Dr Michael J Green

Nonresident Fellow

Expertise: International security; East Asian defence; Japan

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Dr Stephen Grenville AO

Nonresident Fellow

Expertise: Regional economic integration; Australia's economic relations with East Asia; international financial flows and the global financial architecture; financial sector development in East Asia

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